![]() "Crave" is a sort of tone poem, spoken by four voices, two male and two female. ![]() Tinker, meanwhile, is personally depressed because of his inability to make a loving connection. He also tests the love that the suicidal boy Robin has for Grace and the love two inmates, Carl and Rod, have for each other. Over the course of the play, he betters Graham's twin sister Grace into despair before giving her an impromptu sex change. At the beginning of the play, Tinker helps the addict Graham commit suicide. "Cleansed" takes place in a concentration camp where the psychopathic Tinker tests the bonds of love and fidelity. Disguised as a commoner, Theseus incenses a mob to kill Hippolytus, but Theseus accidentally kills Stophe too. His father, Theseus, resolves to kill him in revenge for Phaedra's death. Despite Strophe's attempts to defend him, Hippolytus turns himself in. Hippolytus is excited by the notion of self-destruction and public revilement. Phaedra accuses him of rape and kills herself. Against her daughter Strophe's advice, Phaedra professes her love to Hippolytus and has sex with him. Still the people love him, as does his stepmother Phaedra. Hippolytus the prince is in a rut, sitting in his room, occasionally receiving sex partners and wasting away. In "Phaedra's Love", Kane updates Seneca's tale of Phaedra and Hippolytus. Still, he cannot die, and the play ends with Cate feeding him bread and gin in the rain. Ian devours the dead baby and deteriorates to the point of death. Cate buries the dead baby and leaves to trade her body for food. Cate return to the blind Ian with a dying baby. The soldier rapes Ian and sucks out his eyes, then commits suicide. ![]() Cate escapes, and a bomb destroys the hotel room. He rapes Cate, and the next morning, a rebel soldier breaks into their room. He is dying of lung cancer and liver disease, and he implies that he may have carried out killings for the government. As an insurgent siege rails outside, Ian tries to convince Cate to have sex with him. ![]() Sarah Kane's first play, "Blasted", concerned Ian and Cate, a middle-aged racist journalist and a child-like woman, who enter a Leeds hotel room together years after the end of an affair. They are characterized by degradation, violence, suicide, and gallows humor. These works have a common set of themes and motifs, though their settings vary from modern England to a sort of metaphysical concentration camp to the nether-space of the disturbed mind. This collection contains the five plays and one screenplay that constitute Sarah Kane's total canon. ![]()
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